How to Use null in a Sentence

null

1 of 3 adjective
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  • But whether that means the clause is now null was not answered.
    — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2020
  • But for some reason, Salvor Hardin can walk through the null field.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 28 June 2021
  • Sometimes, the results of such a study are called 'null results'.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2016
  • The main finding is that the thrust is in the right direction, and the null positions produce no thrust.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 May 2018
  • If the result is null, the account exists on the system, but no one has yet signed in using it.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 22 July 2022
  • In every tokamak, there is a null point in the magnetic field.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Five percent is mixed (a group made up of women and men), and 2% is null (unable to pull gender makeup).
    — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2023
  • When the sun goes down, however, that aspect becomes null.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 5 June 2022
  • Fifty years later, those efforts are at risk of being rendered null.
    — NBC News, 21 Apr. 2020
  • However, top shooters from across the state — guys who often practice from NBA range — say the impact on them has been null.
    — Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 27 Dec. 2019
  • When the grid was still, the two light waves would bounce back to the corner and cancel each other out, producing a null signal in a detector.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Feb. 2016
  • But the null result might also make a cynic wonder whether the warm-up really matters at all.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 28 Mar. 2020
  • And which are most likely to hear the hosts apologetically declare null points?
    — Jon O'Brien, Vulture, 9 May 2023
  • Legal experts said the filing is null because it was misused.
    — Molly Stellino, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Doing so eliminates the many bugs that null references can spawn.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2022
  • In the media space, without speed, volume and velocity, the impact of your efforts may be null.
    — Beni Basel, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The court responded by declaring the congress to be in contempt and said that all laws passed from that point on were unconstitutional and thus null and void.
    — Chris Kraul, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2017
  • But as Catonsville seeks to establish an arts and entertainment district, the amusement tax may be null, Bacon said.
    — Taylor Deville, baltimoresun.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The researchers suggest the gastrocnemius may be more important for your running stride, which is why its fiber type matters more—but the null result for the soleus should give us pause.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2020
  • But if scientists can create an easy-to-use, viable method for getting wounds to heal completely, rather than scar over, the need for such treatments could become null.
    — Claire Bugos, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2021
  • The lander is not moving around as much as feared, so both sats connect without encountering the antenna’s null zone.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2018
  • Some researchers believe that the models could yet be modified to escape the constraints placed on them by the experiments’ null results.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022
  • And like the two preceding sequences, the density of numbers is null at infinity.
    — Jean-Paul Delahaye, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2020
  • To be assigned a value score, stocks must have a valid (non-null) ratio and corresponding ranking for at least two of the six valuation ratios.
    — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • To be assigned a quality score, though, stocks must have a valid (non-null) measure and corresponding ranking for at least four of the eight quality measures.
    — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • To be assigned a Quality Score, though, stocks must have a valid (non-null) measure and corresponding ranking for at least four of the eight quality measures.
    — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • By making it so much harder to believe in longstanding theories, this would be the most important null result in the history of physics.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Ensure all values in the business process are considered; there should be minimal null or zero values.
    — Prashanth Southekal, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • With only a few days before voters go the polls, Pemech Estrada was leaning toward casting a null vote, essentially a protest vote.
    — Christopher Sherman, ajc, 25 June 2023
  • Hariri also would like to see more neuroscientists publish their null findings.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 July 2020
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null

2 of 3 noun
  • SlideComponent);var w=[],y=null,C=function(e){function t(n,i,r){e.call(this,t,y,_.ViewType.
    — Car and Driver, 12 July 2018
  • Seen from the drone-god, the rapper's cipher was a zero in shape: null, void, an empty space that, as soon as someone enters and begins to rap, fills.
    — Wyatt Mason, Esquire, 7 June 2017
  • The concept of a null set is extremely useful in mathematics.
    — Martin Goldstern, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The server logs are sent to dev/null, a nonexistent directory on Linux machines.
    — Ian Paul, PCWorld, 17 Oct. 2018
  • Language is about words, but also about context and structure, and sometimes those things render specificity null.
    — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Some undecided voters, like Sao Paulo resident Mauricio Soares, are choosing to vote null or blank.
    — Juliana Koch, Philip Wang and Rodrigo Pedroso, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Since then, Summer has interacted with the Duttons a number of times, but hints at a burgeoning relationship were pretty much null.
    — Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 13 Mar. 2022
  • That benefit is rendered null, however, when people take photos with the intent of sharing them on, say, Instagram.
    — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 11 July 2019
  • In another measure of political disillusionment, more than three million people cast blank or null-and-void ballots — and that does not include the 13.7 million who opted not to vote at all.
    — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Immediately after the election, Maduro ordered its supreme court to declare null all proposals that came from the national assembly.
    — Jorge Jraissati, National Review, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Just a few years after it was proposed, critical tests were performed, confirming the predictions of Einstein’s theory as matching our Universe and rejecting the null (Newtonian) hypothesis.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • However, the worsening coronavirus pandemic and the public’s unpredictable response renders nearly all conventional political wisdom null.
    — cleveland, 8 Apr. 2020
  • SlideComponent);var w=[],y=null,C=function(e){function t(n,i,r){e.call(this,t,y,_.ViewType.
    — Car and Driver, 12 July 2018
  • Seen from the drone-god, the rapper's cipher was a zero in shape: null, void, an empty space that, as soon as someone enters and begins to rap, fills.
    — Wyatt Mason, Esquire, 7 June 2017
  • The concept of a null set is extremely useful in mathematics.
    — Martin Goldstern, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The server logs are sent to dev/null, a nonexistent directory on Linux machines.
    — Ian Paul, PCWorld, 17 Oct. 2018
  • Language is about words, but also about context and structure, and sometimes those things render specificity null.
    — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Some undecided voters, like Sao Paulo resident Mauricio Soares, are choosing to vote null or blank.
    — Juliana Koch, Philip Wang and Rodrigo Pedroso, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Since then, Summer has interacted with the Duttons a number of times, but hints at a burgeoning relationship were pretty much null.
    — Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 13 Mar. 2022
  • That benefit is rendered null, however, when people take photos with the intent of sharing them on, say, Instagram.
    — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 11 July 2019
  • In another measure of political disillusionment, more than three million people cast blank or null-and-void ballots — and that does not include the 13.7 million who opted not to vote at all.
    — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Immediately after the election, Maduro ordered its supreme court to declare null all proposals that came from the national assembly.
    — Jorge Jraissati, National Review, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Just a few years after it was proposed, critical tests were performed, confirming the predictions of Einstein’s theory as matching our Universe and rejecting the null (Newtonian) hypothesis.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • However, the worsening coronavirus pandemic and the public’s unpredictable response renders nearly all conventional political wisdom null.
    — cleveland, 8 Apr. 2020
  • SlideComponent);var w=[],y=null,C=function(e){function t(n,i,r){e.call(this,t,y,_.ViewType.
    — Car and Driver, 12 July 2018
  • Seen from the drone-god, the rapper's cipher was a zero in shape: null, void, an empty space that, as soon as someone enters and begins to rap, fills.
    — Wyatt Mason, Esquire, 7 June 2017
  • The concept of a null set is extremely useful in mathematics.
    — Martin Goldstern, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The server logs are sent to dev/null, a nonexistent directory on Linux machines.
    — Ian Paul, PCWorld, 17 Oct. 2018
  • Language is about words, but also about context and structure, and sometimes those things render specificity null.
    — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Some undecided voters, like Sao Paulo resident Mauricio Soares, are choosing to vote null or blank.
    — Juliana Koch, Philip Wang and Rodrigo Pedroso, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
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null

3 of 3 verb
  • Miley threw 51/3 perfect innings, nulled three runners in the seventh and tried to complete a shutout in the ninth.
    — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 24 July 2019
  • Don’t worry that cooking with it will null the point: The heat is not so high as to damage the principal flavors.
    — Emily Horton, charlotteobserver, 29 Aug. 2017
  • The sats surge their signal strength to overwhelm any noise from an enemy trying to jam them, while nulling antennas pinpoint the attack and dampen the signal with counter-noise.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Ricart understood the changing dynamics in college football and was careful to include a contingency that would null the truck’s lease should Ewers transfer.
    — Jessica Rodriguez, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Come kickoff Saturday night, any previous patterns and statistics for Futbol Club Cincinnati are nulled.
    — Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, 21 Oct. 2017
  • China will likely avoid gross and blatant expropriation but will change regulation either to dilute ownership, reclassify ownership, or null out bond and stock values for heavily indebted companies.
    — Anne Stevenson-Yang, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Miley threw 51/3 perfect innings, nulled three runners in the seventh and tried to complete a shutout in the ninth.
    — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 24 July 2019
  • Don’t worry that cooking with it will null the point: The heat is not so high as to damage the principal flavors.
    — Emily Horton, charlotteobserver, 29 Aug. 2017
  • The sats surge their signal strength to overwhelm any noise from an enemy trying to jam them, while nulling antennas pinpoint the attack and dampen the signal with counter-noise.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Ricart understood the changing dynamics in college football and was careful to include a contingency that would null the truck’s lease should Ewers transfer.
    — Jessica Rodriguez, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Come kickoff Saturday night, any previous patterns and statistics for Futbol Club Cincinnati are nulled.
    — Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, 21 Oct. 2017
  • China will likely avoid gross and blatant expropriation but will change regulation either to dilute ownership, reclassify ownership, or null out bond and stock values for heavily indebted companies.
    — Anne Stevenson-Yang, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Miley threw 51/3 perfect innings, nulled three runners in the seventh and tried to complete a shutout in the ninth.
    — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 24 July 2019
  • Don’t worry that cooking with it will null the point: The heat is not so high as to damage the principal flavors.
    — Emily Horton, charlotteobserver, 29 Aug. 2017
  • The sats surge their signal strength to overwhelm any noise from an enemy trying to jam them, while nulling antennas pinpoint the attack and dampen the signal with counter-noise.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Ricart understood the changing dynamics in college football and was careful to include a contingency that would null the truck’s lease should Ewers transfer.
    — Jessica Rodriguez, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Come kickoff Saturday night, any previous patterns and statistics for Futbol Club Cincinnati are nulled.
    — Charlie Hatch, Cincinnati.com, 21 Oct. 2017
  • China will likely avoid gross and blatant expropriation but will change regulation either to dilute ownership, reclassify ownership, or null out bond and stock values for heavily indebted companies.
    — Anne Stevenson-Yang, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021

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